Virtualisation | Cloud | Strategy
Data is the new oil Data is the new oil, or so it is stated almost everywhere. What that means is open to interpretation, it could mean anything from unlocking data is the key to driving revenue or it could mean that data is buried beneath many layers and difficult to extract. I enjoy working […]
Pets, Cattle, Ants Pets vs cattle as an analogy to manage IT assets and cloud infrastructure is a decade old. Even before this observation became commonplace, this is something that I’d seen first-hand. When I came into the IT industry, I was often supporting assets named after Knights of the Round Table, Lord of the […]
Cloud Migration Value Creation I recently read an excellent post by Bill Hunt titled Cloudbusting. In this article Bill outlines and challenges some of the myths of cloud computing as he sees it from his federal role. Bill is a contributor to the 2019 Federal Cloud Computing Strategy, “Cloud Smart”, which introduced a subtle change […]
Mapping the Rationale for Hybrid and Cloud DCs It seems like where ever you look across the public cloud landscape you will find a partnership between VMware and Hyperscaler. Far from 2020 being the year of VDI, it seems to be the year to move your VMware workloads, as VMware workloads, into a Hyperscalers cloud. […]
UiPath PDF File Word Analysis I have a lot of PDF documentation to read. I’ve been starting to work with UiPath and I wondered if I could put something together to perform a simple analysis of the frequency words are used in a document. My thinking here is that is might help to identify trends […]
New Adventures in RPA For the uninitiated RPA stands for Robotic Process Automation, or a way of making technology work in smarter ways. To paraphrase the tag line from UiPath “Make robots so people don’t have to be robots”. “Robotic Process Automation is the technology that allows anyone today to configure computer software, or a […]
Application Ontology I’ve been thinking about the different services, policies and functions that support the delivery of applications to individual lines of business. Many of the organisations seem to struggle with this more than anything else in moving toward cloud adoption. As I’m often found saying “the technology can pretty much be made to do […]
The impact of gravity on the cloud, what am I talking about now… Gravity is defined as “the force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth”, that can be extrapolated onwards to state “or towards any other physical body having mass”. It’s a force that has shape everything in our universe. Which […]
VMworld Europe 2018 takes place again in the wonderful city of Barcelona. After some intense negotiations in the Conyard household, I can confirm that I will be coming to VMworld Europe this coming November. It’s been a few years since I was able to attend (this will be my 4th overall 1 in San Francisco […]
Presenter – Martin Hosken Session expectations VMware Cloud Provider Vision and Strategy Managed Service Provider and VMware Cloud on AWS VMware Cloud on AWS technical deep-dive How can MSP consume this model